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Google Code-In 2012 - contest for High School Students

Educational Technology Guy

Google has announced Google Code-In 2012 , a contest for high school students. The contest is for 13-17 year old students and is all about software development. The grand prize winners, along with a parent/guardian, will get a trip to Google Headquarters in Mountain View California.

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Digital literacy vs. Computer literacy: Students need to develop both

Neo LMS

Students are bad at Google search. It is a common complaint that students perhaps over-rely on Google, and are not familiar with, or used to using, alternative search engines and databases. However, the ERIAL project — a two-year anthropological study — discovered that students also fail at using Google.

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Podcasting in Education: Teacher's Guide

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Since I published this post over 10 years ago (2012), podcasting has come a long way. For podcasts to reach audience they need to be distributed through a hosting platform such as Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, etc. To this end you will need two types of elements: hardware and software.

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Chromebooks - definitely awesome for education

Educational Technology Guy

Back in May of 2012, I wrote about Google Chromebooks and how they were great for education. You can do anything - there is a web app to match pretty much any software and they even work offline and you can now run some Android apps on them. Google Apps for Education - great apps that work perfectly with Chromebooks.

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What Will Online Learning Look Like in 10 Years? Zoom Has Some Ideas

Edsurge

Zoom is actually a decade old, and the first conferences launched in 2012, limited to a mere 15 participants. That’s mainly because Zoom’s open software developer kit—or SDK—lets third-party companies build their own apps—and existing apps include icebreaker games and even a Kahoot integration.

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Insider Tips to Help Entrepreneurs Juggle Two Jobs

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

In 2012 we decided to try our hand at creating speech language apps and technology for students, but we needed to keep our practices open to pay the mortgage and the bills. We created our own Google email addresses with our website and synced our calendars. Our software developer introduced us to UberConference.

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Three Things Teachers Need to Spot—and Stop—Plagiarism

Edsurge

Teachers’ options include checking for plagiarism manually or using time-saving software designed for this very purpose. Plagiarism-detection software can address the most pressing needs of classroom educators faced with assessing students’ written work. Google Classroom integration. But time isn’t the only challenge.

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